Thursday, August 6, 2009

Aren't these shoes adorable?!?^.^ The color, the style, and the material together are all something that you don't typically see on the streets or in your school, and its sorta refreshing. I found them on yesstyle.com and would definately buy them if i didn't know that as soon as I did my parents would blow up on me.But yeah.....the reason I absolutely love these flats is cause they are completely unique, unlike the normal, boring, plain, patterned, or typical flats that people buy because their old ones died and are sitting among the rotten potatos and week old spinach in the trash. Those shoes scream, "I was bought because a frantic teenage girl rushed into the store, grabbed for the closest, most unoriginal style of flats that she could find, because she needed them for her school performance which she completely forgot about, made sure they were around ten buckaroos, fumbled around for her size, tore the tag off as soon as it was paid for, and ran for the door hopping on one foot trying to slip the shoes on before she even managed to get out of the store, all in 2 minutes." ><>

Graham Cracker Crumbs: 2 cups (keep some more on the side just in case you run out^.~; hehehe crushing the graham crackers was so much fun; we put them in a bag, sat on them, rolled on them, and punched them^.^...very fine crumbs:P)

sift sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a large bowl; use a wisk, fork, or mixer to incorporate all the ingredients together

mix together eggs, milk, oil, and vanilla in a seperate large bowl

slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients; mix well

add the boiling water to the mixture and make sure it is incorporated well

set mixture aside

in a seperate bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs, the 1/8 cup of sugar, and butter (if you don't think there is enough moisture add some vegetable, canola, or olive oil; sorry but you can't subsitute the butter^.^)

line 3 muffin pans with cupcake liners or holders

layer the bottom of the cupcake cup with a good, nice, thick thick thick layer of the graham cracker mixture^.~ and pack it nice and good^.^; make sure you have plenty left to put on top of the cupcake before it goes into the oven

put the muffin pans in the oven, that you preheated to 300 for small cupcakes or 350 for large cupcakes, for about 5 minutes to get the graham cracker nice and golden

pour the cupcake batter into the cupcake liners until it almost reaches the top; make sure there is a good amount of space left to top on the graham cracker mixture. CAUTION:do not line the cupcake tin with raw graham cracker...they float to the top and when they bake they go kaboom and eat up other cupcakes>

put remaining graham cracker mixture on top, not leaving any of the batter visible^.^

put the muffin pans in the oven (we did them one pan by one); small cupcakes go in from 12-15 minutes; large cupcakes go in from 18-20 minutes

halfway through the baking process, rotate pans

bake until you think the cupcakes are ready. I highly suggest using a toothpick or wooden skewer to test if they are ready(poke the cupcake with the toothpick right in the middle of the cupcake; if it comes out reasonably clean, it's ready)

once done, remove the cupcakes from the pan onto a cooling rack or plate to not get the cupcake holders to oily or soggy

YAYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!delicious cupcake babies done^.~

Dudeeeeeeeee...these mini cupcakes tasted the most delicious...yummy dark chocolaty goodness melting in your mouth in between the crunchy sweetness of the graham cracker mixture^.^yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum

hehe^.^you can top them with frosting or whipped cream or ganache if you want...but my friend doesn't like whipped cream and we were too tired to do anymore cause by the time we finished it was about 4am>.<

poor....poor LittleRock..T.T...he got eaten up by Mt. Everest right there....this is the result of trying to line up the sides with only graham cracker><

What happens when two crazy silly asian girls brainstorm^.^

My best friend and I were makin bakin cupcakes and truffles from 11:30 till 5 am. Much trial and error was involved but in the end we created very delicious food babies. Now we've decided that since makin bakin was so much fun we're goina have our own baking blog, using and experimenting with yummy delicious and nutritious ingredients that makes our tummys happy. We don't own any fancy tools, so we're keeping the recipes easy and simple^.~
PS: And we'll also spontaneously and flamboyantly add other random posts as well. They will involve anything from fashion to asian dramas^.^